There are three overlapping points in the category of FUTURE CONTINUOUS. Point 9 is A2 and defined as: AFFIRMATIVE WITH ‘WILL’ Which is elaborated with usage at the same level at point 21: FUTURE ARRANGEMENTS with ‘will’ to talk about an event or action in progress at a specified time in the future. However, point […]
Point 31 PASSIVES is with modal verbs to evaluate or summarise Point 14 in PASSIVES is defined as: the passive with modal verbs in a range of contexts, with a variety of subjects. Here’s a list on iWeb corpus of _nn _vm be _vvn 1 INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND 16848 2 CARE SHOULD BE TAKEN […]
188 MODALITY can C1 USE: PAST NEGATIVE, DEDUCTIONS ‘can’t’ or ‘cannot have’ + ‘-ed’ to make deductions. On iWeb: 1 CA N’T HAVE HELPED 61 The New York Times Emma Thompson Can’t Live Without Hannah Gadsby and Potato Scones “It was my dad’s favorite food, which can’t have helped, because he died of heart […]
Point 186 in MODALITY is defined as: Expressions with ‘can’ or ‘can’t’ to give focus or add emphasis, such as ‘as you can see’, ‘I can’t say’, ‘I can tell you that’, ‘as you can imagine’, ‘I can say that’, ‘I can assure you that’ Here are iWeb clusters: 1 I CA N’T SAY ENOUGH […]
Point 75 in MODALITY is defined as: negative question forms in main clauses and question tags. This is proving very hard to search for in corpora. They do not like negative modal variable-length queries with question marks at the end. The best we could find was to try ca_vm _x _p _vvi on iWeb: 1 […]
There are at least 7 grammar points related to the negative form of ‘can’ in the category of MODALITY in the English Grammar Profile. Four of these cannot be differentiated by form alone automatically, so, therefore, will require manual interpretation. These are: Point 12 A1 can negative. Point 50 can A2: give and refuse […]
Point 173 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘can’ with an increasing range of adverbs (including ‘easily’, ‘hardly’, ‘now’, ‘probably‘, ‘sometimes’, ‘still’) in the normal mid position after the modal verb or after the subject in questions. When doing a cluster search on iWeb for can_v _r _vvi* ‘hardly’, ‘probably’ or ‘sometimes’ do not […]
Point 169 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: ‘(much) more/less’ to modify ‘likely’ in a comparison. There is overlap with point 63 in ADVERB phrases: types and meanings at C1. degree adverbs (‘slightly’, ‘a bit’, ‘much‘) to modify comparatives A cluster search on iWeb for * * less|more likely * *: 1 […]
Point 165 in the category of MODALITY is defined as: the fixed expression ‘I must admit’ or ‘you must admit’ to express concession. ‘you’ is much rarer than ‘I’ When we search on iWeb: 1 YOU MUST ADMIT THAT THERE IS A 5 Interest.co.nz Why it has never been more important for New Zealand […]
Point 163 MODALITY is defined as: ‘may’ in phrases such as ‘as you may know’, or ‘as you may have’ + ‘-ed’ to focus the reader on shared knowledge. This partly overlaps point 168 MODALITY and PAST AFFIRMATIVE of ‘may have’ + ‘-ed’ to talk about possibility in the past. A search on iWeb […]